Plant root tortuosity: an indicator of root path formation in soil with different composition and density

Direct comparison of MRI and X-ray CT technologies for 3D imaging of root systems in soil: potential and challenges for root trait quantification

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Spring barley shows dynamic compensatory root and shoot growth responses when exposed to localised soil compaction and fertilisation

(2014) Johannes Pfeifer et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

A Novel Growing Device Inspired by Plant Root Soil Penetration Behaviors

(2014) Ali Sadeghi et al.   PLoS One

Gravitropism and mechanical signaling in plants

(2013) Masatsugu Toyota et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

How do roots elongate in a structured soil?

(2013) Kemo Jin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Circumnutation as an autonomous root movement in plants

(2012) Fernando Migliaccio et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Imaging plants dynamics in heterogenic environments

(2012) Fabio Fiorani et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Root elongation is restricted by axial but not by radial pressures: so what happens in field soil?

(2012) A. Glyn Bengough   PLANT AND SOIL

Radial force development during root growth measured by photoelasticity

(2012) Evelyne Kolb et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Focused Section on Electroactive Polymer Mechatronics

(2011) Federico Carpi et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

Quantifying lateral root reinforcement in steep slopes - from a bundle of roots to tree stands

(2010) M. Schwarz et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Root elongation, water stress, and mechanical impedance: a review of limiting stresses and beneficial root tip traits

(2010) A. Glyn Bengough et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Root-soil mechanical interactions during pullout and failure of root bundles

(2010) M. Schwarz et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Genetic and genomic dissection of maize root development and architecture

(2009) Frank Hochholdinger et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Ca2+ Regulates Reactive Oxygen Species Production and pH during Mechanosensing in Arabidopsis Roots

(2009) G. B. Monshausen et al.   PLANT CELL

Combined MRI-PET dissects dynamic changes in plant structures and functions

(2009) Siegfried Jahnke et al.   PLANT JOURNAL